Soren wrote on Jan 3
rd, 2014 at 1:04pm:
Antarctic ice has rarely been more extensive - is that weather? But when arctic ice shrinks - that's climate.
Is that how it works? Scary bad news - climate. Good news/no news - weather.
Anyway, the explanation for the ice-trapped ship was that AGW made sea water less salty (melting icebergs - thus making it 'more vulnerable to freezing'.
So the explanation for the ice trap was not weather but AGW - ie climate.
Weather is a short term phenomenon. Climate is long term, measuring change over at least 30 years.
So your argument is that the models got it wrong. Of course, you don't know which models, and you don't know what their actual prediction was for that particular area, so you really don't know if they got it wrong at all. You assume. In fact, I doubt if you even know the exact location or the extent of the sea ice. All you know for sure is that a few ships got trapped in ice and that there was more ice than usual, and that certain vacuous idiots are giggling about it, so you decided to add a few inane giggles of your own.
You assume that global warming means that the entire globe will warm at the same rate from year to year and that there will be no local cooling effects whatsoever. You also assume that some predictions as yet unknown predict less sea ic in the Antarctic.
Soren, this may come as a surprise to you, but it's not unusual for ships to get caught in sea ice.
Please feel free to correct my perception of your argument, but from where I stand, it's not much of an argument at all.
It might be hot as hell right now, but there might be something in that Kool aid that you're drinking that severely affects your judgement. All you seem to have is an amazing collection of strawmen and totally wrong assumptions.